We had heard that Queenstown Winter Festival started on Friday the 27th, the day we arrived. Basically Queenstown is packed, and alsorts of shows and bands and fireworks and crazy stuff like jumping in the lake goes on. The setting is beautiful, right on lake Wakatipu, with mountians rising up all around us. We met our friends Dave and Kaz, and ...

Though the drive form the west coast over to Queenstown is meant to be one of the most spectacular in New Zealand, I don't really feel in much of a position to comment. I'm sure it's fantastic when you can actually see something, but when the mist/fog is covering pretty much everything above 200 metres, all you have is a sense that something big...

me and James rose the next morning and begun our New Zealand road trip (Laura and Dave stayed a day in Christchurch as they weren't going back there again) James did the first part of the drive and I did the second. we drove as far as we could towards Queenstown but we pulled over for the night beside a beautiful lake for the night when it got d...

We hit queenstown on the 24th and stayed at the Southern Laughter Hostel. Its a good spot because you get your own apartment style room with kitchen etc, so the split us between two apartemnts. On the way to queenstown the magic bus dropped us for a look at the home of the original bungee. Its just half an hour from there. Its probably the best ...

Know I've come back after a four day tramp in the mountains around Queenstown. I walked the famous Routeburn track and the less known Caples track. They were both really nice, the Routeburn had some really nice view's, but was a bit crowded and I think DOC have done too mutch to the track... like making small bridges ewerywhere and I actually fo...

We didn't spend too long in Queestown, but headed straight to Glenorchy instead. A small wee village in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by mountains. There's also a village beside there called Paradise! Aptly named we think as we weren't sure if we found it or not :o)

I arrived in Queenstown on 25/11/06 The first days were spent looking for work and sleeping in the van to save money as we were going out every night meeting up with people! I Now have a job as a labourer for a block layer. Its $13 an hour which is a bit above average and lasts up until christmas. So next im looking for a flat and hopefully I wi...

What a wicked week we've had! We LOVE Queenstown its really nice and tons of fun. We've had pretty good weather since we've been here which was a relief after that bad week we had before. After we left Franz Josef (check out the pics ive put up for last weeks blog, got me wearing some wicked sunglasses!lol!) we headed to Wanaka which was really ...

A quick trip into Queentown town centre to buy more camera cards (how many do I own now???) and then the start of a truly amazing morning. We got a flight on a Cesna 207 (tiny 7 seater plane where yours truly got to sit in the co-pilot's seat) from Queenstown. Queenstown is such a small airport the planes taxi on the grass! The flight took us ou...

Had yet another scenic drive Northwards to Queenstown, stopping off at Kingston for lunch to view the old Kingston Flyer Steam Train. Chose our hostel up a hill (idiots again) above the town providing excellent views over Lake Wakatipu. We walked around the lovely town and the gardens within a peninsular protruding into the lake. Next day we too...